Remote Data Engineer - Analytics at FBS Brazil — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role offers flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based), making it a viable option for location-independent professionals based in Brazil. The job is structured around an international US-aligned team, so expect some overlap with US Eastern or Central time zones for cross-functional collaboration — typically mid-day Brazil time (BRT, UTC-3), which is manageable from most Latin American locations.
Since Capgemini serves as the Employer of Record and payroll is managed locally in Brazil, you must be legally authorized to work in Brazil. This is not a country-agnostic global remote role — it is Brazil-specific. Digital nomad visa holders from other countries would not qualify unless they have Brazilian work authorization.
For Brazilian-based nomads, remote flexibility is a strong draw. Popular domestic remote-work hubs like Florianópolis, Porto de Galinhas, or Búzios offer solid infrastructure and good quality of life. If the salary is competitive for a senior data engineer in Brazil (typically BRL 15,000–25,000+/month at this seniority), cost of living in these destinations is very favorable compared to São Paulo or Rio.
- Async-friendliness: Moderate — collaboration with US stakeholders implies some scheduled meetings
- Travel perks: No explicit coworking allowance or equipment stipend mentioned
- Key constraint: Brazilian legal work authorization required via Capgemini EOR
FBS – Farmer Business Services is part of Farmers operations with the purpose of building a global approach to identifying, recruiting, hiring, and retaining top talent. By combining international reach with US expertise, we build diverse and high-performing teams that are equipped to thrive in today's competitive marketplace.
We believe that the foundation of every successful business lies in having the right people with the right skills. That is where we come in—helping Farmers build a winning team that delivers consistent and sustainable results.
Since we don't have a local legal entity, we've partnered with Capgemini, which acts as the Employer of Record. Capgemini is responsible for managing local payroll and benefits.
What to expect on your journey with us:
- A solid and innovative company with a strong market presence
- A dynamic, diverse, and multicultural work environment
- Leaders with deep market knowledge and strategic vision
- Continuous learning and development
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join the Analytics Engineering team within the Service Analytics and AI organization. This role is pivotal in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and analytics solutions that empower Advanced Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Data Science initiatives. You will play a crucial role in building a semantic data layer, defining and implementing cutting-edge data products, and delivering innovative AI-driven solutions that fuel business growth and enhance customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Data Pipeline Development: Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable and robust data pipelines, ensuring seamless data integration and processing across diverse systems.
- Analytics Engineering Best Practices: Establish and uphold best practices for data engineering, including coding standards, data governance, performance optimization, and automation strategies.
- Code Quality and Review: Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to the team's continuous improvement in coding practices and methodologies.
- ETL/ELT Development: Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines, reusable frameworks, and libraries to process and transform data from diverse sources, ensuring accuracy, quality, and consistency.
- System Monitoring: Proactively monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance across all data engineering workflows.
- Automation and CI/CD: Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline the deployment, testing, and maintenance of analytics engineering processes.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with data scientists, engineers, analysts, product managers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements, translate them into actionable technical specifications, and deliver impactful data solutions.
- Stakeholder Communication: Articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, fostering alignment and ensuring a shared understanding of data initiatives across teams.
- SQL & Data Engineering: Advanced SQL development, query optimization, complex transformations, and large-scale data processing.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing enterprise-scale data solutions using Snowflake, including performance tuning, data sharing, tasks, streams, and modern platform capabilities.
- Experience building scalable transformation frameworks, reusable business logic, testing, documentation, and deployment pipelines using dbt.
- Star schemas, conformed dimensions, historical tracking, KPI frameworks, and analytical data models.
- Data quality, lineage, metadata management, testing, observability, and model lifecycle management.
- Experience delivering data products within Agile product teams and modern cloud environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working as an Analytics Engineer or equivalent
- Hands-on experience with SQL, SQL Server, Python, dbt, and Snowflake
- Experience in version control systems such as Git, and workflow management tools such as Airflow
- Proven experience in designing and building scalable data pipelines and architectures
- Strong understanding of data governance, quality assurance, and performance optimization in a data engineering context
- Expertise in ETL/ELT processes, data modeling, and integration of data from multiple sources into a data warehouse
- Experience with CI/CD workflows and tools for data engineering
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)
- Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally renowned group
- Private Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Training & Development opportunities in partnership with renowned companies
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